HP should be more active with marketing it, or sell it to concentrate on less profitable product lines it is so enamored with. If OpenVMS is as profitable as claimed, where is the money going? [The Inquirer]

SCO, pariah of IT industry, got what may be legally damaging return fire from German Linux kernel developer, an email presenting SCO with formal notice alleging GPL copyright infringement was sent the firm this weekend. [The Inquirer]

SCO issued dual challenge by Novell today over who owns Unix System V and its intellectual property rights claims, confirming earlier Wall Street Journal story. [The Inquirer]

Wall Street Journal reports today: Novell claims it owns rights to Unix OS; may cause problems in SCO lawsuit against IBM and Linux community. Novell is ally of open source community. [The Inquirer]

Hewlett Packard announce the availability of OpenVMS 8.1 for Itanium based systems.

With over a year since Hewlett-Packard Compaq merger, it is about time HP decided what to do with OpenVMS. Its limbo state is beyond all reason. It is still better than Unix, Linux, Windows for security, clustering. [The Inquirer]

Files lawsuit against SCO, announced today. Matthew Szulik, Red Hat Chairman, CEO, says collaborative process of open source software development which created Linux OS has been unjustly questioned, threatened. [The Inquirer]

Further legal specifics on new lawsuit against SCO. [The Inquirer]

Samba team issued statement on SCO including Samba in its latest release of Unixware. Samba is distributed under GNU GPL. For SCO to keep using open source software when attacking others for such is hypocrisy. [The Inquirer]

Reader email shows that SCO-Caldera changed their policy about GPL quickly, documents this with quote from SCO website: this material is provided AS-IS and at no charge. [The Inquirer]